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9/2/2015 6:00AM

Jerry Seib: Obama Nears Victory on Iran Deal

As the Iran nuclear deal reaches 33 votes of support in the Senate, the Obama administration is closing in on the votes it needs to secure the pact. WSJ's Jerry Seib discusses how the debate may shift from here. Photo: AP

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... good day for present Obama the White House on Tuesday and in the effort to sell the new nuclear deal with Iran today because two Democratic senators in court and once came out and say ... they would be in favor of the deal Christians of Delaware and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania ... this is important because increased to thirty three the number of Democratic senators who say they will be supporting the deal ... and is the White House is only one Democratic senator short of running up to thirty four votes that would be needed ... to override a resolution of disapproval try to knock down the deal ... means in short the Prez is probably Guinea get this deal through one where the other are plenty of Democratic senators after eleven declared surely will be a least one and probably more in that group who will say that and before the deal ... this is not however mean there will be a really vicious debate in Washington over the agreement ... the present would be forty votes in the Senate ... to support a filibuster of the resolution stop it from coming to a vote he doesn't have that yet he may not get that many senators ... middle of next week Donald Trump and Ted Cruz both Republican presidential candidate Saudis they ... will be a period of tea party rally here to generate lots of opposition to the deal in a very loud manner ... um plenty of opposition still coming from Israel law to Republicans extremely unhappy ... with this deal so there may still be a very tough today ... but I think increasingly you'll see the opponent's move from stop the deal to the next stage was is going to be ... what can we do to maintain sanctions on Iran even if the nuclear deal goes into effect ... that's can be an interesting debate has probably gonna start in just a few weeks ...